Name: La Pequeña Dorrit (in Spanish)
Price: 53.03 EUR
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9788484286707

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Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Publisher

Alba

Synopsis "La Pequeña Dorrit (in Spanish)"

Después de más de veinte años en China («Tengo tan pocas raíces que me arrastra la corriente»), Arthur Clennam vuelve a Londres convencido de haber desperdiciado su juventud y de que ya ha pasado para él el momento del amor. Su madre, una anciana inválida y siniestra, le recibe gélidamente en la habitación de la que lleva doce años sin salir, y en la que, al fondo, en la penumbra, cose una desventurada muchacha. Arthur se interesa en seguida por ella, sospechando que puede guardar la clave de un vergonzoso secreto familiar que su madre le oculta, y descubre que se trata de Amy Dorrit, nacida en la cárcel de deudores de Marshalsea, donde su padre, uno de los más antiguos presos, es toda una institución Hay grandes mudanzas en esta novela de la decepción a la esperanza, de la pobreza a la riqueza pero un clima de restricción y falta de libertad se extiende por toda ella y unifica sus múltiples temas. La pequeña Dorrit (1855-1857), que presentamos íntegra en una nueva traducción de Ismael Attrache y Carmen Francí, es sin duda uno de los mejores Dickens, compendio monumental de su destreza narrativa, de su ingenio cómico y de su talento para crear ambientes y personajes. Pero quizá nunca Dickens había sido tan incisivo o «subversivo», como dijo G. B. Shaw de esta «obra maestra entre las obras maestras» en su sátira de la sociedad victoriana, a la que golpea implacablemente por su presunción y mezquindad, por su educación «en el miedo y el escalofrío», por su infame sistema de clases y por la escandalosa incompetencia de sus instituciones.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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